Once we got to the city, we found a parking spot in a parking lot near the restaurant. I mean, it was pretty close to the restaurant, if you count 4 city blocks as close.
The restaurant that we had chosen to eat at was in a hotel. When we got into the hotel, we were speechless. It was SO fancy. I'm almost positive that there was gold on the walls or something. The restaurant was just as nice. We sat down and were afraid to touch anything for fear of doing something wrong. Arielle was super impressed with the menu since she lives a tragic life from having pretty severe allergies to gluten and dairy. She ordered the mustard and pistachio crusted lamb and I just ordered a steak. They were both so good! It was the kind of steak that just melted in your mouth.
Our first course (if you could call it a course) was a taste of the sea. Literally, a taste. I got a spoon with a minuscule amount of smoked salmon on it and Arielle got a mini shrimp cocktail thing. Arielle doesn't like shrimp so she gave me the shrimp and I gave her the smoked salmon. She attempted to separate the salmon from the creamy sauce that she was most likely allergic to. She somewhat succeeded and the little spoon was a big mess when she was finished with it.
When we first went in the restaurant, Arielle swore she recognized a man sitting at a table with a large group of people. She thought he was from some Christmas Hallmark movie that she had seen and that he had played 'a bad guy in a coat that was trying to ruin Christmas'. I thought she was crazy because I didn't recognize the guy at all. Arielle was so positive and couldn't get it off her mind. Halfway through our meal, we heard that table talking about Hallmark. Arielle looked at me and whisper-shouted "HA!". From then on, she was set on figuring out the name of the movie she saw him in. A little while later, a man from another table went up to the Hallmark man and asked for a picture with him and commented on how he loved his acting in Hercules! At this point, Arielle and I were freaking out because our experience with famous people was limited to the occasional country band that we saw at our local community hall. Arielle figured out who the man was when our meal was almost done - it was Kevin Sorbo! I then recognized him from playing the dad in the movie, Soul Surfer. We didn't want to go over to him and ask for a picture because someone already had and we didn't want it to look like we were just recognizing him just because someone else had recognized him. We didn't want to look like 'those people' who were just jumping on the bandwagon. Feeling like failures, we ate the rest of our food and curbed our curiosity about Kevin by talking with the waitress. ;)
Eventually, our meal ended and our really expensive bill was delivered to us. We left the hotel feeling a little more poor and slightly more cultured. The 'cultured' feeling didn't last long because when we arrived back at my car, I had gotten a parking ticket for not paying the fee of the parking lot. Oh well, the whole experience was an adventure like it always is when I'm with Arielle :)
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